Analysis of A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XXVIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Yet it is pitiful how friendships die,
Spite of our oaths eternal and high vows.
Some fall through blight of tongues wagged secretly,
Some through strifes loud in empty honour's house.
Some vanish with fame got too glorious,
And rapt to heaven in fiery chariots fly;
And some are drowned in sloth and the carouse
Of wedded joys and long love's tyranny.
O ye, who with high--hearted valliance
Deem truth eternal and youth's dreams divine,
Keep ye from love and fame and the mischance
Of other worship than the Muses nine.
So haply shall you tread life's latest strand
With a true brother still, and hand in hand.
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Metre | 1111001101 11101010011 1111111100 111101011 1101111100 0111001001001 0111010001 1101011100 11111101 1101001101 111101001 1101010101 111111101 1011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 486 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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